US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Jan. 13 for "Honeycomb structure, exhaust gas purifying device and method for producing honeycomb structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,167, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Honeycomb structure, exhaust gas purifying device and method for producing honeycomb structure" was invented by Yukio Miyairi (Nagoya, Japan), Masaaki Masuda (Nagoya, Japan), Kyohei Kato (Nagoya, Japan), Takafumi Kimata (Nagoya, Japan) and Kazuya Hosoda (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pillar shaped honeycomb structure, including: an outer peripheral wall; and porous partition walls disposed inside the outer peripheral wall, the partition walls defining a plurality of cells, each of the cells penetrating from one end face to other end face to...